This morning, our son got the day off from work so came over for breakfast and brought his cat along. When the kitty comes over he likes to antagonize the other cats and my other son's puppy likes to play

This volunteer tomato plant started growing alongside our chain link fence surrounding the chicken coop.

A couple of pears are almost ripe on a tree that we planted 3 years ago. I prefer them to be a little on the softer side which makes them sweeter in my opinion. Another week and I believe they will be

At wal-mart (we shop there only as a last resort or in an emergency) we saw this sunset between the trees at the edge of the parking lot.

In an earlier post, I showed these robins while they were still in the egg and after they hatched. Today I took another picture... They grow very fast!

This spring our daughter noticed that a robin had built a nest under the eaves of our porch. My daughter was able to snap a picture of the eggs just as they were starting to hatch (look closely to see

We had a hail storm tonight. The hailstones were some of the biggest I have ever seen. Will have to look tomorrow to see the full extinct of the damage however I did check the Apple Trees to see the shape

Two pictures of this spring's apple blossoms. This tree was planted 7 years ago but I accidently nicked the trunk with a weedeater and since then we have only gotten 2 or 3 blossoms in the spring. This

In 1991 I traveled to Colorado to rock climb. On the way back to South Carolina I took a scenic detour through Wyoming and South Dakota. I wanted to attempt climbing this rock however the forestry service

This picture with my phone on the way to the grocery store this evening.

My wife (@homesteadhippy) and I decided to cut back on the gardening we do outside since our family has shrunk to my wife and I and our youngest son now. After cleaning out a space for the bed in the corner

I caught this image on the way into work this morning.

The picture of the sunset I was able to grab on a commute home from work today.

I have been using linux for about 20 years now... I first found out about this strange computer operating system in in 1995 when a friend of mine who was even more geeky than I am showed me proudly that

Why do we forget the second part of that command? Teaching others to observe/obey the commandments that Jesus gave which were also the commandments his Father gave (I give you no new commandment).

I discovered that one of my bee hives died out over the winter. I decided to extract the remaining honey for our use. I will create a follow up post with more pictures and explanations.

It is COLD here! The last few weeks have been either below zero or in the single digits. Today it almost got up to 30 degrees which made me long for spring. Of course getting seed catalogs in the mail

Sunset on the way home from work

After the sun had actually set the colors were even more striking and vibrant.

Beautiful sunset on the way home.